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Butterflies are important insects that can help to make a garden more beautiful while maintaining their own aesthetic beauty. Butterflies are some of the key pollinators for flowers. Butterflies subsist on a diet of nectar and pollen, while also eating other substances like rotting fruit and tree sap when the above is not available. Perhaps the most amazing part about butterflies is their transformation from flightless larvae to beautiful butterfly. Butterflies start out as small larvae that eat plants, and after remaining in their cocoon for several weeks, emerge as full grown butterflies that soon gain the ability to fly. There’s nothing more beautiful than having a garden populated by butterflies, and all that’s needed to attract butterflies is lots of flowers. There are several different varieties of butterfly, and each variation has their own unique coloring which can serve to ward off or startle predators.
Butterflies will come to a garden that has flowers, but if you want them to remain for longer, consider having a butterfly feeder filled with nectar, and a butterfly house or two scattered around the garden. With these in place, the butterflies will be more liable to frequent the garden throughout the season.